Just about every day I read a report or projection about the breakneck growth of connected hardware or, as it is more commonly called, the Internet of Things. Cisco, Gartner and Forbes all project that the IoT market will be worth trillions of dollars within the next decade as consumers…

Will they or won’t they? That’s the question running through the minds of everyone in the global financial markets as they await the December 15th -16th meeting of the US Federal Reserve and its decision about raising interest rates. Unlike her predecessors, Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellin has been…

Since I started using an Apple Watch, I find myself taking conference calls on the go, roving around the office and generally moving as much as I can in order to meet the daily activity and exercise goals I programmed into my new watch. Thanks to the sensors and other…

This post is based off of a talk I gave in an entrepreneurship conference at the Technion (The Israeli Institute of Technology). The talk was given to undergraduate/graduate students who wish to someday start a company. The full presentation can be found here. It is written as a lecture…

Our tech stack includes multiple databases and data-stores such as MongoDB, Redis and Neo4j, and our production environment consists of multiple backend processes, async worker processes and web servers. All of our services are running inside Docker containers and are built and deployed using Bamboo. Sometimes there's an actual need…